School-Clinical Child Psychology Program, PsyD

Academic Requirements

This
is a five-year program for full-time students. The course of study includes
didactic courses, extensive practica and approximately 3,500 hours of
externship and internship experiences. Students develop foundational and
functional competencies to be able to work with children, adolescents and
adults in schooling environments, medical centers, hospitals, community mental
health centers and other settings.

Students
must complete 116 credits: 110 credits of required courses and 6 credits of
elective courses.

Students
may apply for NYS Certification as a Bilingual School Psychologist if they meet
the following program requirements:

Complete the following courses:

Integrating Gender and
Race/Ethnicity in Multiculturalism

Contemporary Issues in School
Psychology

Assessment of Bilingual and
Multicultural Populations

Integrating Multiculturalism
into Psychotherapy Practice

Practice of School Psychology
with Bilingual and Multicultural Populations

School Neuropsychology Concentration

Students may elect to complete
the Program’s School Neuropsychology concentration by completing the following
requirements:

Practicum in Child Assessment
I-II

Neuropsychological Assessment

School Neuropsychology

Externship that includes
experiences in neuropsychological assessment

Externships

Students are required to take
School-Clinical Child Psychology Externship Seminars I-VI (0 credit) each
semester they are on externship. Typically, a student will complete three,
year-long (600-750 hours) experiences in schools, mental health facilities,
hospitals or infancy/early childhood centers. Each experience is supervised by
a licensed psychologist and will continue for 10-12 months, two or three days a
week. At the end of the fourth year, the student will have accumulated
approximately 1,750 hours of supervised externship experiences. View
externship sites where our students obtained
internship training for 2010-15

Internship

The culminating educational
experience is the internship that occurs after all course work has been
completed and Research Project I and the proposal for Research Project II have
been signed. All students are required to complete a full-time internship in a
school, mental health facility or hospital setting, lasting between 1,500 and
1,750 hours (the equivalent of one full year). Supervision must be conducted by a licensed psychologist and meet state regulations.

View the
internship sites where our students
obtained internship training for 2010-15